Microsoft Photosynth review: in pictures

Microsoft Photosynth is a technology that automatically stitches together digital photos. The company recently made Photosynth easier to use and open to all.

By
Danny Allen, PCWorld.com
| Aug 22, 2008| IDG News Service

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Microsoft Microsoft Photosynth Specs

Browser plug-in supporting Firefox 2 or 3/Internet Explorer 7

Photosynth desktop application for uploading photos

Windows XP/Vista

256MB of RAM (1GB is recommended)

32MB graphics memory

Microsoft Microsoft Photosynth Price

RRP: FREE

Microsoft Photosynth is a technology that automatically stitches together digital photos. The company recently made Photosynth easier to use and open to all.

What's Microsoft Photosynth?

Developed by Live Labs - Microsoft's applied research arm - Photosynth automatically stitches together digital photographs to create a somewhat abstract but high-resolution three-dimensional re-creation (dubbed a synth) for the world to explore. And though ready-made examples have been previewable for several months now, Photosynth.net has finally thrown its doors open for everyone to upload up to 20GB of photos.

The 3D photo reconstructions suggest an improbable three-way love child of a David Hockney collage, Apple's QuickTime VR, and Microsoft Research's excellent WorldWide Telescope. But it's one of the more mind-blowing things to appear since Google Earth.